well, as i'm leavin' town i have to clean out my office. here are the quotes i've been looking at for the last three-odd years that are now comin' down:*****Another Postponement of DestructionBanging out the kitchen door, I kickedbefore I saw it a thick glass baking dishI'd set outside for dogs the night before.It skidded to the top step, teetered, tippedinto an undulating slide from stepto step, almost stopped halfway down, then lungedon toward concrete, and I froze to watch itsplinter when it hit. Instead, it kissedthe concrete like a skipping stone, and rangto rest in frost-stiffened grass. Retrieving it,I suddenly felt my neck-cords letting goof something like a mask of tragedy.I washed the dish and put it in its place,then launched myself into a rescued day.*henry taylor------------------------"We are running a school here. Not a gymnasium. Not a....a....a...roller derby. And certainly not a Model U.N.," Van Heise said. "I've got the same advice for all of them: sit down, shut up, and you'll be out of here in four years." *the Onion, 'Principle Hates Underachievers, Overachievers'-------------------------In America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it...and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen.*Jack Kerouac-----------------------To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately...the most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.*Michel de Montaigne------------------------I only know that I will maintain what I believe to be true in my own universe, and as an individual I will give in to nothing.* A. Camus------------------------Wilderness is good for the soul. Fight with all that you are to protect it.------------------------Painting of Jesus Totally Knows Area Man Is High*from the Onion------------------------Wage Peace------------------------